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  Summary of Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holiday: Key Takeaways & Analysis Included , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 61min

  Please note: This concise summary is unofficial and is not authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by the original book's publisher or author.Short on time? Or maybe you’ve already read the book, but need a refresh on the most important takeaways. In a quick, easy listen, you can take the main principles from Stillness Is the Key!In his 2019 book, Stillness Is the Key, Ryan Holiday guides readers using Stoic and Buddhist philosophies to show people how internal stillness can lead to doing great things, personal peace, and happiness. The world is packed with a 24/7 media cycle, which can be overwhelming and daunting, making it hard to find any quietness; yet, Holiday remedies this issue by reemphasizing techniques used for hundreds of years. He uses extensive examples of notable, successful people throughout history who found this stillness he describes and utilized it in high-pressure and inspiring circumstances. From sports stars to politicians, Holiday shows a full breadth of people who benefit from stillness, which shows that Holiday’s tactics can be used in any career or personal scenario that feels unmanageable.Stillness Is the Key not only shows that stillness works, but it also helpfully guides readers on how they too can achieve tranquility in their minds, which leads to the ability to handle situations that are externally chaotic. The world is not neat and orderly, but with patience and a quiet mind, each person can teach themselves to cope and even thrive in the disorder. The book astutely shows how the way people orient their brains can impact how they act. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ninja Reads. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/180602/bk_acx0_180602_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Summary of Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman: Key Takeaways & Analysis , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 106min

  Please note: This concise summary is unofficial and is not authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by the original book's publisher or author.Short on time? Or maybe you’ve already read the book, but need a refresh on the most important takeaways. In a quick, easy listen, you can take the main principles from thinking, fast and slow!In the 2011 best seller Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, an economist and psychologist, writes about the way humans make decisions and judgements in a complex world. One of the most renowned economic scholars, his work is also commonly used in sectors such as psychology and even policy making. In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman helpfully points out the errors in thinking that people commonly have and fall victim to. He frames them as a series of illusions in a well-organized, direct fashion. Through this work, he enables readers to better make decisions and resist any harmful proclivities they may have.Throughout the audiobook, he extensively details the factors that go into the unseen side of our choices. He gives heaps of statistical information, as well as coloring this information with various vignettes, showcasing different studies done by him and other researchers who inspired or furthered his work. Crucially, he discusses the roles of two systems in our mind, the fast and the slow brain, System 1 and System 2, respectively. These two systems often fail us, leading us to make decisions based on our intuition rather than all the information in front of us; nevertheless, they stem from evolutionary measures meant to keep us safe, and by understanding how these thoughts work, we can learn how to make stronger decisions. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ninja Reads. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/180585/bk_acx0_180585_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Right to Left: The Digital Leader's Guide to Lean and Agile , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 278min

  Right to Left is the third book by Agendashift founder Mike Burrows, doing for Lean and Agile in digital delivery what his 2018 book Agendashift did for change and transformation. Do you see in digital technology the opportunity to meet customer needs more effectively? Do you recognize that this may have profound implications for how your organisation should work? Do you want to help bring that about? Regardless of whether you consider yourself a technologist, if your answer to those questions is “yes”, you are what we refer to in this book as a digital leader. If you are a digital leader, aspire to be one, or think that sometime soon you might need to become one, then this book is for you. Whatever your current level of knowledge of Lean and Agile, you will find here both an accessible guide to the Lean-Agile landscape and a helpfully challenging perspective on it.  The book is organized into six chapters. The first four have a strong right-to-left theme, which means consistently, deliberately, and even provocatively starting with outcomes - with needs being met - and working backwards from there, keeping outcomes always in the foreground:  Right to left in the material world - introducing Lean, the strategic pursuit of flow Right to left in the digital space - introducing Agile and Lean-Agile Patterns and frameworks - popular Lean, Agile, and Lean-Agile frameworks and how they combine and complement each other Viable scaling - the Agile scaling frameworks, organisational viability, and the challenges of change  The last two chapters approach questions of organisational design and leadership from angles complementary to that core theme:  Outside in - strategy and governance in the wholehearted organisation Upside down - Servant Leadership and the supportive, ‘intentful’, customer-focused organisation ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Burrows. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/196385/bk_acx0_196385_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Illustrated Edition

  This beautifully illustrated edition of the New York Times bestselling classic celebrates the 42nd anniversary of the original publication-with all-new art by award-winning illustrator Chris Riddell. SOON TO BE A HULU SERIES • "An astonishing comic writer."-Neil Gaiman Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read It's an ordinary Thursday morning for Arthur Dent . . . until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly after to make way for a new hyperspace express route, and Arthur's best friend has just announced that he's an alien. After that, things get much, much worse. With just a towel, a small yellow fish, and a book, Arthur has to navigate through a very hostile universe in the company of a gang of unreliable aliens. Luckily the fish is quite good at languages. And the book is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy . . . which helpfully has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large, friendly letters on its cover. Douglas Adams's mega-selling pop-culture classic sends logic into orbit, plays havoc with both time and physics, offers up pithy commentary on such things as ballpoint pens, potted plants, and digital watches . . . and, most important, reveals the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything. Now, if you could only figure out the question. . . .

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  The Edward Tales (eBook, ePUB)

  In conferring upon Mississippi native Elizabeth Spencer (1921-2019) the 2013 Rea Award for the Short Story, the jury said that at the then age of ninety-two, she "has thrived at the height of her powers to a degree that is unparalleled in modern letters." Over a celebrated six-decade career, Spencer published every type of literary fiction: novels and short stories, a memoir, and a play. Like her best-known work, The Light in the Piazza, most of her narratives explore the inner lives of restless, searching southern women. Yet one mercurial male character, Edward Glenn, deserves attention for the way he insists on returning to her pages. Speaking of Edward in unusually personal terms, Spencer admitted a strong attraction to his type: the elusive, intelligent southern man, "maybe an unresolved part of my psyche." In The Edward Tales, Sally Greene brings together the four narratives in which Edward figures: the play For Lease or Sale (1989) and three short stories, "The Runaways" (1994), "Master of Shongalo" (1996), and "Return Trip" (2009). The collection allows readers to observe Spencer's evolving style while offering glimpses of the moral reasoning that lies at the heart of all her work. Greene's critical introduction helpfully places these narratives within the context of Spencer's entire body of writing. The Edward Tales confirms Spencer's place as one of our most beloved and accomplished writers.

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  Hypnotic Gastric Band: The Beginners Guide for Men and Women for Quickly and Permanently Weight Loss Through Self Hypnosis, Affirmations, Deep Sleep Meditation, Emotional and Binge Eating Suppression , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 191min

  Do you want to lose weight quickly and permanently through hypnosis?Are you sick and tired of trying so many weight loss diets that don’t yield any results?Are you looking for a protocol that guarantees fast results without too many restriction? If you answered ‘yes’ to this three answers, thank keep reading/listening...Hypnotic Gastric Band is a psychological procedure that can help to convince the subconscious mind that a gastric band has been fitted. And how does this method work?This audiobook will guide you through a state of hypnosis, so you can train your brain to create a virtual gastric band. Together with the power of attraction, he will empower you to control your eating habits and form a positive relationship with your body. This technique shrinks your stomach's capacity to store food, so you feel fuller, faster. In this way your body will behave exactly as if it were physically present. There’s no physical surgery, no scarring and no forbidden foods. The step-by-step system - explained deeply - contains a mix between hypnosis and hypnotherapy techniques that send “burn fat” and “weight loss” messages to your subconscious mind, helping you to reach in an approved and scientific way your diet/fit goals.In this audiobook you will find: Guided meditations for burn fat A lot of weight loss techniques though hypnosisPowerful affirmations for feed you mind The Habit changing method Proves that Hypnosis is very helpfully Tips and tricks to avoid binge eating Tips and tricks for kids The hypnotic gastric band is a pain-free, completely natural healthy eating tool that can help control your appetite and your portion sizes without diet headaches. Already thousands of people have successfully followed this protocol and the results for 87 percent of them are just outstandingYou have to simply close your eyes, ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David McCord. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/182830/bk_acx0_182830_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Cosa Nostra: The Notorious History and Legacy of the Sicilian Mafia , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 90min

  [T]he term mafia found a class of violent criminals ready and waiting for a name to define them, and, given their special character and importance in Sicilian society, they had the right to a different name from that defining vulgar criminals in other countries. (Leopoldo Franchetti, 1876)It is hard to find an island on the map more central than Sicily. Located at the crossroads between Europe and Africa, and between the Eastern and Western Mediterranean, Sicily has rarely been governed as an independent, unified state, yet the island has always occupied a front-row seat to some of the most important events in history, and nowhere is this more obvious than during antiquity.Over the course of the 19th century, the people of Sicily found themselves at the center of a struggle for freedom, one that ended up being long and often very bloody. It was during these crucial years of struggle that the Sicilian mafia, La Cosa Nostra ("Our Thing"), started to take shape. The original word "mafia" was a part of Palermitan slang, and although the origins of the word are not completely certain, some linguistic historians believe it originally meant "flashy". One historian of the mafia, Salvatore Lupo, helpfully suggests that it was used in its earliest iterations to vaguely refer to a "pathological relationship among politics, society, and criminality."In response to the rise of the mafia, the Italian state propagated a doctrine of Sicilian backwardness, which they used to introduce martial law and suspend civil liberties, under the pretext that they were not "ready" for the freedoms enjoyed by other Italian regions. Northerners and foreigners mistakenly (and snobbishly) believed that the mafia was just a relic of the primitive, peasant culture that had dominated the island for centuries, and that it was destined to die out once the island had been properly absorbed into the dominant, mainland culture. Others hypothesized that the corruption ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim D. Johnston. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/161967/bk_acx0_161967_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Italy's Most Powerful Mafias: The History and Legacy of the Cosa Nostra, La Camorra, and 'Ndrangheta , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 215min

  The word “mafia,” Sicilian in origin, is synonymous with Italy, but Italy is home to several different mafias, with three being particularly notorious. While the Cosa Nostra of western Sicily is the most infamous, other powerful groups include the ferocious ‘Ndrangheta of Calabria and the Camorra, the third-largest mafia, which is active in Naples and the Campania region. A “mafia” is loosely defined as a criminal organization that is interested in social, economic, and political power, combining elements of a traditional secret society with those of a business, but further levels of nuance are necessary in order to understand these groups. In a general sense, this is because each mafia creates a myth about the development of the organization, which becomes like an unquestionable truth. In essence, part of what makes its members so completely loyal to it is also what makes outsiders so utterly afraid of it.Over the course of the 19th century, the people of Sicily found themselves at the center of a struggle for freedom, one that ended up being long and often very bloody. It was during these crucial years of struggle that the Sicilian mafia, La cosa nostra (“Our thing”), started to take shape. The original word “mafia” was a part of Palermitan slang, and although the origins of the word are not completely certain, some linguistic historians believe it originally meant “flashy”. One historian of the mafia, Salvatore Lupo, helpfully suggests that it was used in its earliest iterations to vaguely refer to a “pathological relationship among politics, society and criminality.”In the particular case of the Camorra, the difficulty of understanding an underground criminal association is made all the more intense because it is so heterogeneous in terms of its development, its different functions, and the diversity of economic sectors in which it operates. To reflect that diversity, some scholars like to refer to it as Camorre, the plural version of Camorra. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim Johnston. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/173022/bk_acx0_173022_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 437min

  New York Times best sellerAn urgently needed guide to the alarming increase in anxiety and stress experienced by girls from elementary school through college, from the author of Untangled“An invaluable read for anyone who has girls, works with girls, or cares about girls - for everyone!” (Claire Shipman, author of The Confidence Code and The Confidence Code for Girls)Though anxiety has risen among young people overall, studies confirm that it has skyrocketed in girls. Research finds that the number of girls who said that they often felt nervous, worried, or fearful jumped 55 percent from 2009 to 2014, while the comparable number for adolescent boys has remained unchanged. As a clinical psychologist who specializes in working with girls, Lisa Damour, PhD, has witnessed this rising tide of stress and anxiety in her own research, in private practice, and in the all-girls’ school where she consults. She knew this had to be the topic of her new book.In the engaging, anecdotal style and reassuring tone that won over thousands of fans of her first book, Untangled, Damour starts by addressing the facts about psychological pressure. She explains the surprising and underappreciated value of stress and anxiety: that stress can helpfully stretch us beyond our comfort zones, and anxiety can play a key role in keeping girls safe. When we emphasize the benefits of stress and anxiety, we can help our daughters take them in stride.But no parents want their daughter to suffer from emotional overload, so Damour then turns to the many facets of girls’ lives where tension takes hold: their interactions at home, pressures at school, social anxiety among other girls and among boys, and their lives online. As listeners move through the layers of girls’ lives, they’ll learn about the critical steps that adults can take to shield their daughters from the toxic pressures t ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lisa Damour. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/006636/bk_rand_006636_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  7 Checklist Items for Success: A Guide to a Richer and More Successful Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 318min

  “A US Navy physician shares his secrets for a more successful life in this self-help work. Mathurin conceived of his debut book when he realized how critical checklists are in the worlds of naval aviation and medicine. Itemized lists, he says, help avoid flight mishaps and operating room errors, so he wondered, ‘Why not apply this same concept to people’s lives to help them achieve their highest potential?’ That epiphany resulted in this book - a kind of instruction manual for living that breaks achievement into seven ‘checklist items: ‘Goals’, ‘Take Action’, ‘Courage to Consistently Commit’, ‘Value Resources’, ‘Investing in Yourself and Others’, ‘Giving Back’, and ‘Create a Legacy of Service to Others’. An introductory section helpfully explains each of the core concepts, in brief, and these same blocks of text are repeated at the beginning of each of seven chapters. The items themselves are unlikely to be new to most readers, as many of the ideas are common in self-help literature (such as ‘Have the courage to go the extra mile with everything that you do, each and every time’). But the presentation of the material feels more novel, as the overarching checklist concept isn’t taken literally; the book’s merit derives from the idea that one can systematically address several broad areas in the quest for a fuller life. At the very least, this notion gives the book a highly focused structure that makes it easy for readers to navigate. Unsurprisingly, given the author’s military and medical background, there’s a sense of logic and precision to this book. Each chapter’s content is uniformly positive and always emphasizes proactivity, but it’s also clear that the book isn’t intended to highlight step-by-step procedure. Instead, it offers a wide-ranging, general discussion of each list item, using examples and personal anecdotes to illustrate specific points. To that end, Mathurin writes from a very personal perspective - sharing, for example, how he grew ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: J.D. Hart. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/118416/bk_acx0_118416_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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